Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 599 597 589
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +82
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 59 153 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.23% 0.27%
As % of the General category 0.17% 0.39% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 23 48 120
10th Percentile £65,000 £56,000 £53,625
25th Percentile £65,625 £70,938 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,219 £76,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% +17.55% +4.42%
75th Percentile £88,750 £122,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £125,000 £126,291
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £85,800 £75,554
% change year-on-year -16.96% +13.56% +12.62%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 33,777 39,548 33,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 63.64% 58.86% 65.35%
Number of salaries quoted 19,301 18,910 25,186
10th Percentile £27,800 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,800 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,856 £51,251 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.43% +2.50% -4.76%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +36 59 £82,500 -1.49% 22
London -19 56 £82,500 -26.67% 16
Work from Home +59 9 £112,500 +55.17% 10
UK excluding London +40 3 £71,250 -16.96% 21
North of England +37 2 £65,000 -31.32% 2
Midlands +59 1 £77,500 +3.33% 1
North West +33 1 £65,000 -31.32% 2
East Midlands +23 1 £77,500 -
North East +8 1 - -

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.08%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) UserZoom
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (52.54%) AWS
2 29 (49.15%) Azure
2 29 (49.15%) GCP
3 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.78%) Alation
4 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.78%) Cloud Composer
4 4 (6.78%) GitHub
4 4 (6.78%) Snowflake
5 3 (5.08%) SaaS
6 2 (3.39%) Apigee
6 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.39%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (47.46%) Data Lake
1 28 (47.46%) Metadata
2 5 (8.47%) Power BI
2 5 (8.47%) Tableau
3 4 (6.78%) BigQuery
3 4 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.78%) DataStage
3 4 (6.78%) QlikView
4 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.69%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) ER Studio
1 4 (6.78%) ERwin
1 4 (6.78%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
2 2 (3.39%) GitLab
General
1 51 (86.44%) Banking
1 51 (86.44%) Finance
2 30 (50.85%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (44.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (40.68%) Financial Institution
5 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
6 9 (15.25%) Retail
7 4 (6.78%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.39%) Marketing
9 1 (1.69%) German Language
9 1 (1.69%) Law
9 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (49.15%) Architect
2 28 (47.46%) Data Architect
3 8 (13.56%) Analyst
3 8 (13.56%) Senior
4 5 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.78%) Business Change Analyst
5 4 (6.78%) Business Change Business Analyst
5 4 (6.78%) GCP Architect
5 4 (6.78%) GCP Data Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Java Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) PMO Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
5 4 (6.78%) Transformation Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Banking Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Risk Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Credit Risk Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) IT Audit Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) Spring
1 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.39%) Kafka
3 1 (1.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.78%) PMI
2 4 (6.78%) Reinsurance
3 3 (5.08%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.69%) IVR
5 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (64.41%) Agile
2 30 (50.85%) Migration
3 29 (49.15%) Data Modelling
4 28 (47.46%) Data Architecture
4 28 (47.46%) Data Management
4 28 (47.46%) Data Strategy
4 28 (47.46%) Metadata Management
5 26 (44.07%) Asset Management
6 25 (42.37%) Commercialisation
6 25 (42.37%) Data Migration
7 24 (40.68%) Business Development
7 24 (40.68%) Cost Management
7 24 (40.68%) Data Privacy
7 24 (40.68%) Innovative Thinking
7 24 (40.68%) Logical Data Model
7 24 (40.68%) Physical Data Model
8 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (13.56%) CI/CD
10 7 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (11.86%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.25%) SQL
2 7 (11.86%) Java
3 2 (3.39%) Python
4 1 (1.69%) C#
4 1 (1.69%) Go
4 1 (1.69%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (47.46%) Azure Certification
2 26 (44.07%) AWS Certification
3 10 (16.95%) Degree
4 4 (6.78%) APMP
4 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.78%) DBS Check
4 4 (6.78%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.78%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.78%) P3O
2 4 (6.78%) PMO
3 1 (1.69%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (42.37%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) Databricks
2 4 (6.78%) Google
2 4 (6.78%) IBM
2 4 (6.78%) Informatica
3 1 (1.69%) Qualtrics
3 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud